Category Archives: Photos

Art Deco Ealing – and Brentford

Posted on April 15, 2012 by John S

London, like most cities, started small then grew… and grew, and grew. My part of the city, Ealing,  was a rural village until the 19th century, when the arrival of the railway station brought with it surburban development. In the … Continue reading →

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An (un)English Garden

Posted on April 13, 2012 by John S

Our back garden is a mess. The front third is a football pitch and so the lawn has disappeared. The middle third hosts a trampoline, so all the grass underneath has died. And the back third is for the washing … Continue reading →

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Cycling the Thames in the Spring sunshine

Posted on April 1, 2012 by John S

First of April, the weather lovely.  Bright sunshine, hardly any wind, a light chill in the shade, but feeling warmer than the 12 degrees forecast when you were in the sun. A perfect day for a good cycle. I decided … Continue reading →

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Sundown on Putney Bridge, iPhone style

Posted on March 30, 2012 by John S

On Tuesday, as I and my friends walked over Putney Bridge, on our way to see Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo at the Half Moon, the sun was in its last throes for the day. I had to … Continue reading →

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To Padstow, Cornwall, to cook some seafood!

Posted on March 26, 2012 by John S

Last Christmas I got a great birthday present from my wife, Kath – a day’s fish and seafood cooking course at the Padstow seafood school. Yes, birthday – I was born on Christmas day. 1 in 365 of us has … Continue reading →

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Boy on a Rocking Horse, Trafalgar Square

Posted on March 4, 2012 by John S

I was walking back to the office on Friday lunch time and passed through Trafalgar Square. Wandered past the new sculpture on the “Fourth Plinth”. It’s a thing called “Powerless Structures, Fig 101”.  Well, of course it is. The sculpture … Continue reading →

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Sportsthoughts (13) – A visit to the Olympic Aquatic Centre

Posted on February 25, 2012 by John S

Yesterday, Friday, a few of us went along to one of the “London Prepares” events at the emerging London Olympics site.  The occasion was the diving World Cup, in the new Aquatic Centre. It was my first trip to the … Continue reading →

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Street sunset distorted

Posted on February 14, 2012 by John S

I like taking shots into the sunset.  You get all sorts of images and distortions.  If there’s a tree or two around you get some lovely silhouettes, especially in winter, when each branch can do its own dance. I found … Continue reading →

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The sadness of the disappearing snowmen

Posted on February 14, 2012 by John S

Eight days ago, we had one of our rare London snowfalls.  We’ve had them the last three years in fact, but before that it must have been a decade or more without snow.  My children had never seen it in … Continue reading →

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The snowy canal

Posted on February 6, 2012 by John S

We had one of our rare snowfalls in London overnight.  Cue traffic chaos, cries of “where’s the grit?” and a general lapse into childhood.  A good thing, the latter: see the smiles on the faces of people of all ages … Continue reading →

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